Thomas Stewart, 2nd Earl of Angus (b.b.1331-1361)was a medieval Scottish

Kingdom of Scotland

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 nobleman.

He was the son of John Stewart of Bonkyll

John Stewart, 1st Earl of Angus

Sir John Stewart, 1st Earl of Angus & suo jure uxoris Lord of Abernethy was a medieval Scottish nobleman.Stewart was the son of Sir Alexander Stewart of Bonkyll, grandson of Alexander Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland and an unknown mother. Sir Alexander died c...

 and Margaret de Abernethy. Stewart was an infant when his father died and inherited his estates and titles in Berwickshire

Berwickshire

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, Abernethy

Abernethy

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 and Angus

Angus

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.

In 1353 he married Margaret Sinclair, a daughter of William de St Clair of Rosslyn

Rosslyn

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. (St Clair was slain in 1330, along with Sir James Douglas

James Douglas, Lord of Douglas

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, at the Battle of Teba

Battle of Teba

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 whilst accompanying King Robert's Heart to the Holy Land.) The petition for this marriage was sent to the Holy See

Holy See

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, with support from John II of France

John II of France

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, which would suggest that the young Angus spent time at the French court.

Present at the siege of Berwick in 1355, Angus was one of the lords that negotiated the release of David II

David II of Scotland

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 following his 10 year captivity following the Battle of Neville's Cross

Battle of Neville's Cross

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. At some point in the late 1350s, Stewart was made Great Chamberlain of Scotland, an office he lost at some point before 1359, when Walter de Biggar was in office.

Angus was considered one of the conspirators in the murder of King David's mistress, Catherine Mortimer, at Soutra in 1360, and was duly imprisoned. Whilst being held at Dumbarton Castle

Dumbarton Castle

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, he succumbed to Bubonic plague

Bubonic plague

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 in 1361.

Marriage and issue

Thomas Stewart had two daughters by Margaret Sinclair:

• Margaret Stewart, Countess of Angus and Mar, and mother to George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus
  George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus
  George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus was born at Tantallon Castle, East Lothian, Scotland. The bastard son of William, 1st Earl of Douglas and Margaret Stewart, Dowager Countess of Mar & Countess of Angus and Lady Abernethy in her own right....
  
  
• Elizabeth Stewart, married John fitz Walter of Cadzow, ancestor of the Earls of Haddington.

Sources

• Balfour Paul, Sir James
  James Balfour Paul
  Sir James Balfour Paul, KCVO was the Lord Lyon King of Arms, the officer responsible for heraldry in Scotland, from 1890 until the end of 1926....
  
  -The Scots Peerage-IX Vols. Edinburgh 1904
• Maxwell, Sir Herbert-A History of the House of Douglas-II Vols. London 1902